netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/7 net-2.6.26] [TIPC]: Enhancements to message header writing

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Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:08:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	allan.stephens@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7 net-2.6.26] [TIPC]: Enhancements to message header
 writing

From: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>
Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2008 16:34:28 -0500

> This patch makes two enhancements to the routine used to
> set bit fields within a TIPC message header:
> 
>  1) It now ignores any bits of the new field value that are not
>     covered by the mask being used.  (Previously, if the new value
>     exceeded the size of the mask the extra bits could corrupt
>     other fields in the message header word being updated.)
> 
>  2) The code has been optimized to minimize the number of run-time
>     endianness conversion operations by leveraging the fact that the
>     mask (and, in some cases, the value as well) is constant and the
>     necessary conversion can be performed by the compiler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>

Applied.
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